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There has been much commentary about the fact that the new (and as yet unnumbered) U.N.
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A rather important hearing was held Thursday, in the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
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I had an interesting exchange on Twitter this morning with Glenn Greenwald about his description of me as a "virulent NSA defender." He has now posted the following update to the post in question, which ...
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In a new piece at Foreign Policy, Matthew M.
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Today, we start with Syria and – for once – some constructive news. The United States, Russia, UK, China and France have come to an agreement in the United Nations Security Council that “would require Sy...
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For the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing yesterday, I prepared a written statement for the record, and I had intended merely to summarize that statement in my oral presentation. Two things happened ...
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The NYT has the text of the draft UN Security Council Resolution on Syria. The most important paragraph is the penultimate one, which states that the Security Council “[d]ecides, in the event of non-com...
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Friday morning, a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit will hear oral arguments in a habeas appeal brought by Abdul Razak Ali, who also goes by the name of Saeed Bakhouch.
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According to Daniel Klaidman at The Daily Beast the Administration has already had two candidates decline the offer to become the next Secretary of Homeland Security. The delay is troubling -- the more ...
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Below you'll find links to all the prepared testimony associated with today's open hearing, a rarity, before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence:
Panel I (joint statement)
Director of National...
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The following is my my prepared statement for today's hearing of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
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The United States Department of State has renewed its global terror alert, urging all Americans to “maintain a high level of vigilance.” The renewal comes right after the terrorist attack on a shopping m...
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Over the past week, we have both spent a fair bit of time at NSA and engaging with the agency.
On Monday, Bobby helped arrange for a small group of scholars to spend the day at the agency, meeting with ...
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This is very good news. From the White House the other day:
Today, President Barack Obama nominated David Jeremiah Barron to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
“David Jeremiah Bar...
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By now, most readers will have heard of the New York Times story, alleging (based on disclosures from Edward Snowden) that the NSA has surreptitiously degraded a critical cryptography standard adopted by...
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The official launch event for the new site Just Security is taking place at this hour with an event entitled, "When Reporting is a Crime: National Security and the Press After Snowden and Sterling." The ...
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The other day, I was driving down Massachusetts Avenue talking on my car's speaker phone system to Rajesh De, general counsel of the National Security Agency. Raj had called me on my Google Voice phone n...
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On September 20th, Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA), a senior member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, proposed legislation that would amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance ...
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Thankfully, the seige in the Nairobi, Kenya mall has concluded, and authorities are shifting their focus to figuring out how it happened. Here's a pair of reporters from the New York Times with that news.